The idea of coincidence is superficially confusing. Intuitively, we apprehend coincidences as happening ‘in the world’. In reality, however, the only ‘place’ a coincidence can occur is in a perceiver … such as you or I. This is conceptually deceptive, since the perceiver apprehends the events and their correlations as extrinsic.

The ‘link’ or bridge between the elements in the constellation… must always be a living one — indeed, those who sense the relatedness amongst the events. Yet -they are this relatedness they sense-. The ramifications of this fact go perennially unrecognized in our ordinary evaluations of coincidence.